Facebook Photos Scraper: Albums, Dates, No Login

Facebook Photos Scraper: Albums, Dates, No Login

Facebook Photos scraper for the photos of public Facebook pages and profiles, with no login, no cookies and no Facebook account: give page links, usernames, numeric ids, album links, photo links, share links or a link to a text file or Google Sheet, and get each photo as a row with its full size image link, size and Facebook's own alt text, and its details: the time it was posted, its caption, exact reaction counts by type, comments, shares, its post, its uploader and its album. One row per page adds the page's followers and about line; one row per album adds its title, description, item count and engagement. Pay per photo, from $0.94 per 1,000.

Built for social media and brand teams, agencies auditing client pages, competitor and campaign research, archivists, researchers building image data sets, and scheduled runs in n8n, Make or Zapier. Rows carry what Facebook shows a visitor who is not logged in; use them under the rules that apply to you.

At a glance

• Three ways to read a page: its Photos tab (Facebook's own list, newest first), its tagged photos, and every album (each album as a row, then every photo of each album: the complete set of the page's public photos).
• Every photo with its details at the photo price: posting time, caption with hashtags and mentions, exact reactions with the split by type (like, love, care, haha, wow, sad, angry), comments, shares, post id and link, uploader and album id. Turn details off for the fastest image only rows.
• Facebook's own date window: only photos posted between two days, sent to Facebook itself, so a past month is reached at once.
• Links of every kind: pages, profiles, numeric ids, photo.php?fbid= and /photo/?fbid= links, album links, and Facebook share links.
• Filters: words in the caption, hashtags or alt text (to keep or to leave out), a minimum number of reactions, a minimum image width. Photos a filter leaves out are free.
• Comments (add-on): each delivered photo's and album's comments, oldest first, newest first or most relevant, with replies if you like.
• Stored image copies (add-on): each full size image kept as a file, in the run's storage or in a named store of yours that stays until you delete it, with a link that keeps working after Facebook's own image link expires.
• Free page details: category, address, phone, e-mail, websites, hours, price range, rating, and from the Meta Ad Library whether the Page runs ads now.

Quick start

1. Open the Actor and type one or more values in Facebook pages, profiles, albums or photos, one per line, for example https://www.facebook.com/natgeo or just natgeo.
2. Choose Which photos of a page: the Photos tab (the form's choice), tagged photos, every album, or several.
3. Set Photos per page (the form starts at 10).
4. Optional: a date window, words, Minimum reactions, Minimum width, the Comments or Stored image copies add-ons, Page details.
5. Click Start. Download the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

An input with no value at all returns a free sample: the newest 3 photos of facebook.com/natgeo, with only the start fee charged.

What you get

Every run writes rows of six types to its dataset. The Actor's Photos view shows the image itself next to the page, the photo link, the time, the caption, the alt text, the counts and the size; the Albums view shows the album rows.

Photo rows

Field	What it is	Filled
photoId, url	Facebook's photo id and the photo's own link (facebook.com/photo/?fbid=<id>, no page or person part)	always
imageUrl, imageWidth, imageHeight, orientation, aspectRatio	the full size image on Facebook's file host and its size	always
imageUrlExpiresAt	when Facebook's own image link stops working (use the Stored image add-on for a copy of your own)	always
thumbnailUrl	Facebook's small crop of the image	on the Photos and tagged tabs
altText, altTextIsPlaceholder	Facebook's own description of the image ("May be an image of mountain and nature"); the flag is true for its placeholder "No photo description available."	always
publishedAt, ageHours	when the photo was posted (UTC) and its age at the run	with details (the default)
caption, hashtags, mentions, linksInCaption	the photo's text exactly as Facebook serves it, with its hashtags, mentioned pages and people, and the links written in it	with details, when the post has text
reactionCount, reactionsByType	exact reactions and their split by type	with details
commentCount, shareCount, engagementCount, engagementRate	exact comments and shares; reactions plus comments plus shares, and that sum over the page's followers	with details
postId, postUrl, postType	the post the photo was published in (single photo post or a photo of several)	with details (postUrl for a Page's photos, or with personal data on)
ownerName, ownerId, ownerType	who posted the photo	with details (ownerId for a Page's photos, or with personal data on)
albumId, albumTitle	the photo's album (albumTitle in the albums mode and for album links)	with details, and in the albums mode
source	photos, tagged, album, photo_link or share_link	always
detailsStatus	ok, not_requested (details off) or failed (Facebook did not give them: the row is free)	always
pageName, pageType, pageId, pageUsername, pageUrl, pageVerified, pageFollowers	the page the photo was read from (a person's id, username and link only with personal data on)	for pages
storedImageUrl, storedImageKey, storedImageBytes, storedImageStatus	the stored copy of the image (Stored image add-on)	with the add-on

Measured over 208 photos of 7 pages of different kinds on 2026-10-24 (a media brand, a sportswear brand, a news outlet, a space agency, a creator, a public figure's profile and a small bakery; own photos from 2026 and 2019 and tagged photos): posting time, reactions, comments, shares, post id, uploader, album and full size image on 208 of 208; reactions by type on 188 (the other 20 have no reaction); a caption on 139 (many pages post photos without text: 11 of 32 of the sportswear brand's photos have one, 31 of 32 of the media brand's).

Album rows (the albums mode and album links)

albumId, url (facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.<id>), title, description, hashtags, itemCount (Facebook's count, which includes items a visitor who is not logged in cannot see), createdAt (the time of the album's own post, for albums posted as a post), postId, reactionCount, reactionsByType, commentCount, shareCount, coverImageUrl, the page's facts.

Page rows

One per page: name, type (page or person), id, username, link, verified mark, exact followers, talking about, were here, about line, picture; with Page details: category, address, phone, e-mail, websites, business hours, price range, rating, and whether the Page runs ads now with its active ads count, its Ad Library link, its creation date, its name changes and the countries of the people who manage it. The row comes after the page's photos. Page details are read for a Page that delivered a photo in the run; pageDetailsStatus says ok, not_a_page (a person's profile), no_photos (the page delivered no photo) or not_read (Facebook did not answer, or the run's allowance for options had no room left: on runs of many pages with one or two photos each, the last pages can come back without them).

Comment rows (Comments add-on)

commentId, commentedType (photo or album), photoId or albumId, itemUrl, text, createdAt, authorName, authorIsPage (a person's id and link only with personal data on), reactionCount, reactions, replyCount, parentCommentId and depth for replies, commentUrl.

Coverage, status and summary rows (free)

• A coverage row per value of the input: what was read for each photo source (calls, photos read and delivered, whether Facebook's end was reached, the sliding pages repaired), the albums read, and why the walk ended.
• Status rows: a page, album, photo or share link Facebook does not show, values that are not usable, an add-on that could not be read, the sample. All free.
• A summary row last: the run's counters, the events charged, the requests made.

How fast

Measured on Apify with the datacenter proxy on 2026-10-24 and 2026-10-25 (whole runs, start included, three runs of each at different hours): 10 photos with their details in 9 to 16 seconds; 69 to 83 photos in a run stopped after 60 seconds; 56 photos of one month in 73 to 89 seconds; 79 photos without details in 9 to 17 seconds; an album link with 16 photos in 13 to 26 seconds; 1,000 photos of one page in 11 to 31 minutes with their details and 2 to 6 minutes without them. Details are read 3 at a time; each photo costs one small extra call. Facebook answers slower at some hours.

How much does it cost to scrape Facebook photos?

Pay per event: you pay for what is delivered, never for misses.

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Photo, per 1,000	$1.32	$1.20	$1.09	$0.94
Page, per 1,000 pages	$1.55	$1.40	$1.28	$1.10
Album, per 1,000 albums	$1.99	$1.82	$1.65	$1.42
Comment (add-on), per 1,000	$0.27	$0.24	$0.22	$0.19
Stored image (add-on), per 1,000	$0.99	$0.98	$0.97	$0.95
Actor start, per run	$0.008	$0.008	$0.008	$0.008

Platinum and Diamond plans pay the Gold price. The Actor start is charged by Apify once per run (per GB of memory: this Actor runs at 256 MB) and has no plan discount. The Store pricing card shows these same prices per 1,000 events: "$0.94 / 1,000" on the Photo row means one photo costs less than a tenth of a cent.

• Photo: one photo row delivered for the first time in the run, with its details when they are on. A photo met twice (on two tabs, in two albums, by two links) is charged once.
• Page: one page row, after the page's photos, charged once when the page delivered at least one charged photo; a page that delivers no charged photo gets its row free. Never charged for photo, album or share links.
• Album: one album row (the albums mode, album links).
• Comment and Stored image: only when you turn the add-on on; a stored image is charged only when the image was stored.
• Free: photos a filter leaves out, repeats, pages, albums or photos that are missing or not public, refused calls, invalid input, page details, the coverage, status and summary rows, and a photo whose details Facebook did not give (delivered with detailsStatus: failed).

Examples at the Gold price: 100 photos of one page with their details cost $0.008 + $0.0011 + 100 x $0.00094 = $0.103; 1,000 photos cost about $0.95; the 20 albums of a page with 50 photos each cost $0.008 + $0.0011 + 20 x $0.00142 + 1,000 x $0.00094 = $0.98.

The work allowance

Work that ends without a charged row (photos a filter leaves out, missing pages, refused calls) is bounded in every run by an allowance that grows with the events charged, so a filter nothing passes stops early, free, with a status row instead of reading a page's whole history.

Input

Field	What it does
Facebook pages, profiles, albums or photos (pages)	One per line: a page or profile link, username or numeric id; an album link; a photo link; a share link. Up to 500. Also read as startUrls, profileUrls, facebook_urls, username, pageNames, pageIds, pageId or profileId.
Values from a file or Google Sheet link (pagesListUrl)	One https link to a public text or CSV file, or a Google Sheet shared with anyone with the link.
Which photos of a page (photoSources)	photos (the Photos tab, newest first), tagged, albums (every album, complete); one or several. Also read as photoType (photos_by, photos_of).
Photos per page (maxPhotosPerPage)	For each page and each source (50 when empty). Also read as resultsLimit, maxPhotos, photos_count, maxPhotosPerProfile.
Photos in the whole run (maxItems)	A bound on the run's photos. Also read as maxResults.
Albums per page (maxAlbumsPerPage), Photos per album (maxPhotosPerAlbum)	For the albums mode (50 and 1,000 when empty); 0 photos per album delivers the album rows alone.
Posted on or after (onlyPhotosNewerThan), Posted on or before (onlyPhotosOlderThan)	A date window: YYYY-MM-DD, an ISO time, today, yesterday, or 30 days, 2 weeks, 3 months, 1 year back from the run's start (UTC days, both ends included); sinceDays takes a number.
Text contains (includeKeywords), Text does not contain (excludeKeywords)	Whole words or phrases on the caption, the hashtags and the alt text, case and accents ignored.
Minimum reactions (minReactions), Minimum width (minWidth)	Leave out photos below either.
Photo details (includeDetails)	On by default. Off: the faster tab rows only (id, link, image, size, alt text). The albums mode and links always read the details.
Comments (includeComments), Comments per photo or album (maxCommentsPerItem), Comment order (commentsOrder), Replies (includeReplies, maxRepliesPerComment)	The Comments add-on.
Stored image copies (storeImages), Store for the images (imageStoreName)	The Stored image add-on, and the name of a key-value store of yours to keep the images in (created by the first run that names it, kept until you delete it, used again by later runs that give the same name; empty: the run's own storage, kept as long as your plan keeps run data). A store of that name this Actor did not create (another Actor's, for example) cannot be opened under its limited permissions: the images then go to the run's own storage and a status row says so. Also read as keyValueStorePrefix.
Page details (includePageDetails)	Free; Pages only, for a Page that delivered a photo (its row then carries them, after its photos).
Include personal data (includePersonalData)	Off by default; see Personal data.
Row format (outputFormat)	full or compact (24 fields).
Pages at once (maxConcurrency), Pause between calls (requestDelayMs), Stop after (maxRunSeconds), Proxy (proxyConfiguration)	Run settings. Apify's datacenter proxy by default; your own proxy links or no proxy are possible.

Example input:

{
  "pages": ["https://www.facebook.com/natgeo", "https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151666622313445"],
  "photoSources": ["photos", "tagged"],
  "maxPhotosPerPage": 100,
  "onlyPhotosNewerThan": "3 months"
}

The Photos tab and the albums mode

The Photos tab is Facebook's own list of a page's photos, newest first, and the fastest way to the latest photos and to a date window. On some pages Facebook starts serving the tab in pieces that overlap (most of a page repeats the page before); the Actor detects that and goes on from the oldest photo it was given, so it keeps going, but such a walk can pass over older photos. For a page's complete public photo set use Every album: each album is read to its end (a media brand's main album of 6,129 photos in one walk), and a photo that sits in two albums is delivered once.

Limits

• What Facebook shows a visitor who is not logged in. A private profile, a page that shows its photos only to logged in visitors, and photos with a restricted audience are not read; a free status row says so.
• Album counts include items a visitor who is not logged in cannot see (a sportswear brand's "Profile pictures" counts 29 and shows 6).
• The image links on Facebook's file host expire (imageUrlExpiresAt); the Stored image add-on keeps a copy: in the run's own storage for as long as your plan keeps run data, or for good in a named store you give (imageStoreName).
• A photo near a date window's edge can fall outside it by its own time: it is left out free.

Personal data

Off by default (includePersonalData). With it off: a person's profile (a public figure's included) keeps its name and loses its id, username, link and picture; the uploader of a photo that is not the Page itself (tagged photos, photo and album links, a person's own photos) keeps its name and loses its id and post link; people mentioned in captions and commenters keep their names without ids or links; phone numbers and e-mail addresses written in captions and comments are not listed as fields. Captions, album descriptions and comments are delivered exactly as Facebook serves them. With it on, those fields are filled. You are responsible for a lawful use of personal data (GDPR included).

What this Actor does NOT do

• No login, cookies or private content: it reads what a visitor who is not logged in sees.
• No "only new photos since the last run" or monitor mode: schedule the Actor with Apify's scheduler and keep the photos you have by their photoId.
• No text read out of the images, no image labels or logo detection with an outside vision service: Facebook's own alt text is on every row.
• No posts, reels or videos: those are the jobs of our Facebook Posts, Reels and Video Search listings.
• No tags of people in a photo.

API examples

Run it and get the rows (replace <TOKEN>):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation_craft~facebook-photos-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"pages": ["natgeo"], "maxPhotosPerPage": 20}'

Node.js:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('automation_craft/facebook-photos-scraper').call({ pages: ['natgeo'], photoSources: ['albums'], maxAlbumsPerPage: 5 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.filter((x) => x.type === 'photo').length);

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("<TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("automation_craft/facebook-photos-scraper").call(run_input={"pages": ["natgeo"], "onlyPhotosNewerThan": "30 days"})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if item["type"] == "photo":
        print(item["publishedAt"], item["reactionCount"], item["imageUrl"])

FAQ

How do I download all the photos of a Facebook page?

Give the page and choose Every album: every album of the page is read to its end and every public photo becomes a row with its full size image link. Turn on Stored image copies to keep each image as a file, in the run's storage or in a store of yours that stays (Store for the images), then download the files or export the rows to CSV.

Can I download the photo albums of someone else's Facebook page?

Yes, when the page shows them to visitors who are not logged in: give the page with Every album, or give an album's own link. Each album comes as a row with its title, description, item count and engagement, followed by its photos.

How do I find the date a Facebook photo was posted?

Every photo row carries publishedAt, the time Facebook gives for the photo (UTC), read from the photo's own details. Use Posted on or after and Posted on or before to get only the photos of a period.

Can I scrape Facebook page photos without logging in?

Yes. The Actor reads what Facebook shows a visitor who is not logged in, through Apify's proxy, with no account, cookies or password of yours.

Why does this Actor run with limited permissions?

It needs only its own run's storage: the dataset it writes, and the run's key-value store for its run record and, with the Stored image add-on, the image files (or the one named store you give it for them). Limited permissions keep it from reading or changing anything else in your account.

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• Facebook Post Scraper: Reactions and Shares by URL
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Changelog

• 0.1 (2026-10-24): first version: the Photos tab, tagged photos and every album of a page, album, photo and share links, photo details, comments and stored image copies.